I was born in the American Midwest. While I appreciate the stable middle-America upbringing, I couldn’t wait to get out into the world. I finished high school a year early and spent my senior year as an exchange student in the French Basque Country, finding myself, learning French, and becoming entranced with Basque culture. I followed this act with college in Montana, a little more time in France (Paris mostly), then moved to Washington, DC and spent five years getting burnt-out in a high-profile federal government position which had me traveling throughout West Africa while I tacked on more trips to Europe.

Graduate school on California’s Monterey Peninsula was escape from the East Coast. Grad school turned into ten years in California, with a two-year Seattle area experiment, and meeting a future wife while hiking in Big Sur. More trips to Europe and expansion into Southeast Asia. Experiencing Idaho’s Sun Valley was next, filled with outdoor activities and searching for historical Basque sheepherder carvings in aspen trees. Now in Northern New Mexico, I spent most of my free time exploring the wild canyons and mountains of this place and searching for petroglyphs and historical ruins.

I started writing in my twenties after wanting to my entire life and find a way to continue in between family, career, and getting into the outdoors. I’ve have ten published books: A Basque Story, Diplomatic Weekends in Africa, Strohm Alley, The Yellow House on Maloney Grove, The American Middle Class Revolution, Rock Creek, The Stevenson Plan, A Novel of the Monterey Peninsula, The Basque Dilemma, The Cibola Treasure Hunt, and Sun Valley Serenade.

While at home in the historical-themed fiction and mystery/thriller genre (A Basque Story, The Stevenson Plan, The Basque Dilemma, Sun Valley Serenade), other interests include paranormal (The Yellow House on Maloney Grove, Rock Creek), coming-of-age psychological (Strohm Alley), examining contemporary society (The American Middle Class Revolution), a travelogue for former diplomatic experiences (Diplomatic Weekends in Africa), food & wine (numerous articles), and a treasure hunt novel set in the American Southwest, (The Cibola Treasure Hunt).

Whether the Basque Country, the Monterey Peninsula, Washington state, Montana, Sun Valley, the Southwest, the Midwest, West Africa, or some other European destination, I treat locations as character themselves.

I’m inspired by authors such as Ernest Hemingway, Robert Laxalt, Daniel Quinn, Stephen King, Peter Mayle, Paul Theroux, and Arturo Perez-Reverte.

The Basque Dilemma, was recently included on a list produced by Smithsonian Journeys on a reading list for France and Spain’s Basque Region, directly underneath The Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky.: https://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/t...

My newest release is a horror novel with Basque American elements set in Nevada's mysterious Jarbidge Mountains.

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